You work hard to keep your place of business clean, inviting, and helpful for your customers. You should approach your website's appearance in the same way.

Roadblocks

Roadblocks. Does anyone like them? No. They cause back-ups and slowdowns in traffic. People turn around and leave the area or they hear about it and avoid the area altogether. Your cyber-traffic works the same way, but in this case, you lose potential customers.

Over the years I've heard countless excuses from people who are bound and determined to build their own websites. Usually it comes down to money, but the roundabout ways folks build their justification are just fantastic.